Re: [tied] ancient script

alex wrote:

> Daniel Baum wrote:
>
>>It's not April 1 today is it?
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>>
>>Not bad though, you actually had me reading your spoof until I got
>
> to:
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>>DU-MI-NE-QA “Sunday”, noun, acc., fem, sg, Latin dominicus, Italian
>>domenica, French dimanche, Romanian dumineca
>>
>>Strange how I never realised that the Minoans were Christians!
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>>
>>Daniel
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>
> Interesting the interpretation of Latin Domenica; we know about
> "dominicus" meaning "of the lord" but I don't know any "domenica" with
> the meaning "of a feminine lord".

"Dominica dies" for Sunday originated in church Latin and is attested in
the New Testament, at Revelations 1.10: fui in spiritu in dominica die
et audivi post me vocem magnam tamquam tubae.

It's got nothing to do with "A feminine Lord", it's simply a feminine
adjective for the (here) feminine noun "dies"

You can see more details in Lewis & Short's Latin Dictionary:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2314696

Daniel